Executive invocations of foreign affairs as the basis for dismissing otherwise valid litigation doesn't seem to work very well these days. But there is one area where (thus far) courts have continued to give the U.S. executive essentially complete deference: determinations on immunity for heads of state. And so it is today in the Federal District Court of D.C.'s decision...
Well, we never got as far as interrogation or surveillance, but that's okay. This has been a truly exceptional exchange, a model of everything the debate over law and the war on terror too often is not: civil, serious, rigorous, and respectful of the profound difficulty of the issues at hand. Many thanks to all who participated in it and to...
I want to close by thanking Ben for writing this terrific book, and our hosts here at OJ for sponsoring this discussion. Before sigining off, however, I want to offer a few predictions and related observations about the road ahead. It appears quite possible that in the near future we will substantially reduce our reliance on military detention for terrorism suspects at...
I must confess that I've been a bit cowed into silence by the heavyweight detention discussion between Deborah, Marty, and Ben. At the risk of wading in, though, I think Ben's point in his most recent post -- that detention should be based upon "dangerousness in the context of a showing of some significant relationship with groups against which Congress...
A few final thoughts on detention and Al-Marwallah before we move on to interrogation--a subject on which I'm certain my arguments will provoke no disagreement. ;-) First, a concession: Marty is quite right that there is an ambiguity in the book concerning what the Al-Marwallah example stands for. I had not noticed this until his last post, and it warrants clarification....
